Cross Country

Islanders have strong showing at annual Chile Pepper Festival

Oct 16, 2010

Fayetteville, Ark. - Texas A&M - Corpus Christi cross
country teams competed at the 22nd annual Chile Pepper Festival on
Saturday. The Islanders women finished sixth out of 56 teams with
the men coming in 13th out of 50.

For the A&M - Corpus Christi women's team the sixth place
finish was their best at the event, and was the top Southland
school. Teams they finished in front of were Wyoming, Arkansas,
McNeese State, Oklahoma, Tulane, SMU, TCU, UT Arlington, UTSA,
Auburn and LSU.

Sarah Kimiayo was the Islanders top finisher coming in 28th with
a time of 17:31.64, Julia Sambu had a time of 17:48.08, Courtney
Johnson ran a 18:00.57 time.

"Sarah and Danielle ran well today on the girls side which was
good to see," said head coach Shawn Flanagan, "I think this race
shows and gives the team confidence that we can run with anyone if
you look at some of the schools we we're in front of today.

"Our team took some big steps today before conference meet."

On the men side the Islanders were 13th finishing in front of
name schools such as Auburn, TCU, LSU, and Tulsa.

Patrick Kimeli again was the top runner for A&M-Corpus
Christi with a time of 30:18.16, Ari Perez 31:41.36, Daniel Barlow
32:15.96.

Eloy Zertuche came in at 32:18.58, Justin Adame 32:21.57 and
Adrian Marquez 33:18.72.

"Patrick did what was expected him to do," said Flanagan "We
just need to get ourselves healthy before the conference meet but
we're got 12 days to be able to do that."